This month one of M/C/C’s clients finally uncapped some huge news they’ve been excited to share for a while. Encryption technology provider Revere Security publicly announced the addition of security legend Whitfield Diffie to its executive team as Chief Cryptographer. The man who WIRED Magazine once dubbed the “Prophet of Privacy” has been actively advising the company behind-the-scenes over the last year and worked with Chief Scientist Eric Smith to co-develop it’s bread and butter – the Hummingbird algorithm. An unprecedented virtual rotor cipher, Hummingbird has the ability to revolutionize security options for wireless devices and embedded systems where space, power and battery life are limited. Diffie is most notably remembered for the invention of public-key cryptography which today remains as the underlying technology for secure Internet commerce. Last month, Revere Security garnered headlines by joining the Automatic Identity and Mobility (AIM) association – a move that puts the company in a strong position to contribute to the standards process for auto-ID encryption. In fact, Revere Security’s ground-breaking technology inspired AIM’s RFID Connections newsletter producer Bert Moore to sit down with Chief Technology Officer Daniel W. Engels, PhD., for the popular podcast series “Hear and Know.” The old friends discussed the state of RFID security, where it’s headed and… promiscuous tags? To find out what that means, you’ll have to give it a listen.
